Dealing with bad days
With all this good advice and all the techniques and medications out there to help you feel good, how come we still have bad days?
The truth is everyone has bad days. Some worse than others. Some have bad weeks, bad months. The length of time is not important. What’s important is how you cope with those days when everything you try leaves you still feeling empty.
Quite often I will be riding high and everything is going like a dream. Life is good and most importantly, I FEEL good. Then you wake up maybe the next day and you know something is different. You’re not sure what, you just feel low, Lifeless, no energy, no get up and go. When these days come I’m usually suffering a bit of pms. Or I’ve been doing too much.
On these days give yourself love, kindness and care. Do NOT beat yourself down for not meeting your own high expectations. Allow yourself time to heal. Knowing that when you’re able you will get back on track to bettering yourself in all ways.
The key is not to catashrophise the bad day. The key is to see it for what it is and accept that for this day you feel crap and you will likely not achieve very much.
Most importantly you have to be KIND to yourself. Think of all you have gone through, and how far you have come. Rather than beating yourself up that your down again, just remind yourself of your strength, and love yourself anyway.
Beating yourself up for not getting much done, or crying, or getting angry with someone, is not going to make you better. Time will pass and you will improve. It’s just hard to remember that as you tuck into the tub of ice cream to drown your sorrows.
Love yourself. Be kind to yourself. Tell yourself all will be ok. You are amazing and very brave and strong and any bumps in the road will only make you stronger in the long run.
Hold on to the great methods here on this blog, for feeling and staying well and all will come good again.
Onwards and upwards my loves. Huge hugs xx
